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The World's Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan Cancer Support's biggest fundraising event. We'd like to invite you to one of our many coffee mornings across the South East to help people living with cancer. If you're unable to come to a coffee morning, many of our outlets also have collection tins if you wish to donate.
Outlets taking part are:
Date
Pub Name
Location
25 Sep
Spitfire
West Malling

The Royal Society has just published a top 20 list of food and drink inventions. This came from a project which listed 100 innovations that were then short listed and voted on by fellows of the society and experts in the food and drink industry. The judging criteria were accessibility, productivity, aesthetics and health.

Senior brewer Stewart Main has brewed Oast Dodger at Shepherd Neame’s pilot brewery for the Kent Green Hop Beer Fortnight. He explains why the brewery was keen to get involved: “Green hop ales are a unique opportunity to showcase the full array of flavours and aromas contained within hops.

Eleven-year-old George Taylor recently decided to walk from Gravesend to Canterbury in aid of the Royal British Legion and felt that it would be appropriate to dedicate it to the Honour of Ryan Fletcher, his Dad’s cousin who died while serving in the Royal Navy.
We were pleased to be able to help by providing accommodation for the night in Faversham as George took on his 40-mile task.

Frinton-on-Sea’s only pub has re-opened its doors following a refurbishment that marked the building’s 100th year anniversary.
Licensees Carol and Pete Cooper of the Lock & Barrel, Frinton-on-Sea toasted the opening, plus the launch of their new charity partnership last night (Wednesday 12 September).